ARROGANCE has blinded Undersecretary at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Amir Hussain Abdullahian who could not see the reality that he can dictate his claims to the Persian press, but not to the free and independent reporters in Kuwait who enjoy free access to information.
Abdullahian is not aware that everything he said about the situation in the region and his unfriendly message to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are nothing but mere illusions of the Iranian regime, which is trying to rescue itself from its inevitable fate.
The maxim ‘He heals people, but he is sick,’ is applicable to the undersecretary because he has forgotten the campaigns of repression, torture and persecution practiced by security forces in his country against those who try to challenge the position of the mullahs. He took advantage of the political movement in the Kingdom of Bahrain to justify Iran’s blatant intervention and stirring of unrest in this Gulf country through elements directly related to ‘Ettelaat’ apparatus. The whole world witnessed the crimes the apparatus committed against the Bahraini people.

The blind Persian eye did not see the thousands of innocent victims who were killed and are being killed every day in Syria by the regime of the first ally of Iran in the region. But it is calling for the withdrawal of so-called foreign forces - the Peninsula Shield Forces- from Bahrain which came at the request of the legitimate ruling system in Bahrain. These forces are different from gangs that Iran planted in Bahrain in an attempt to dominate all Gulf Arab states and to incite sectarian strife.
Political observers in the region realize the extent of bitterness Tehran experienced over the failure of its sabotage schemes in Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Moreover, it is desperately trying to hide the negative aspects seen on the internal front due to international sanctions and the loss of its regional influence in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. In fact, Iran has lost its bet on reviving the Persian Empire.
There is no doubt that Ameer Hussein Abdullahian has forgotten that his state has the same rights as that of other bordering countries and that Arab countries in the region do not need Tehran’s permission to exercise sovereignty over their territories, peoples and natural resources. In other words, Iran cannot dictate instructions on oil production to Gulf states or to whom they should sell.

Iran has also forgotten that Arab countries, like the rest of the world, have defense strategies to maintain their security and stability and will not stand idly in the face of threats related to the freedom of navigation in the region. The Arabian Gulf is not an arena for showing off muscles through ridiculous plays that do not scare anyone. They, however, reveal how much the Tehran regime is scared of what is coming next both internally due to the growing popular resentment over oil and financial embargo and through international disciplinary operations reflected by the firm global response to the threat to close the Strait of Hormuz.
The current Iranian scene is ironical. The regime kills people and then walks in funeral processions and sheds crocodile tears in an attempt to arouse sympathy, forgetting that no matter how loud the offender’s claims of innocence, bloodstains on his hands always expose him. Therefore, the play performed by the clerical regime will not help it survive; what is coming is greater!